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SubjectRe: Future devfs plans
Jim Gifford wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
>To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
>Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 7:45 AM
>Subject: Future devfs plans
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>>Do not delete devfs.
>>
>>devfs allows drivers to be loaded when user level programs
>>need them,
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>So will a proper modprobe.conf file. You don't need devfs for autoloading of
>modules.
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On a different note though, some systems have been made to rely soley on
devfs, meaning there is no static /dev fs underneath it. Currently
there is no documentation in the kernel source for going about migrating
from a devfs only situation to a static or udev controlled /dev fs. On
top of that, MAKEDEV as distributed at least by debian, doesn't create
alsa devices and there is no script in the kernel source tree that i've
found that allows the device creation. One would have to go download
the alsa-driver package from the alsa-project website and use the
snddevices.sh script. Since alsa-driver is integrated with the kernel
now, this device creation script should be included in the kernel source
or if that's not the place for such a file, we'll have to get on
debian's butt to have MAKEDEV updated to actually support it.

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